江苏省南通市启秀中学2023-2024学年八年级下学期第二次月考英语试卷

这是一份江苏省南通市启秀中学2023-2024学年八年级下学期第二次月考英语试卷，共13页。试卷主要包含了单项选择，完形填空，阅读理解，阅读与回答问题，句子翻译，书面表达等内容，欢迎下载使用。
二、单项选择(本题共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分。)
21. UNICEF is ______ internatinal charity that wrks t make the wrld ______ better place fr children.
A. an; aB. a; aC. an; theD. the; the
22. — Gd news! Car prices are drpping these days.
— Really? Maybe I can ______ ne sn.
A. expectB. ffer C. affrd D. receive
23. — Is yur sleeping prblem getting better?
— N. And ______. I have a terrible tthache tday.
A. put all the eggs in ne basket B. it never rains but it purs
C. the early bird catches the wrm D. every dg has its day
24. The car needs checking. It may cause accidents if it ______ sn.
A. wn't check B. wn't be checkedC. desn't check D. isn't checked
25. An ORBIS dctr perated ______ five patients _____ his first visit t that pr area.
A. in; while B. n; during C. fr; in D. n; with
26. — He never changes his mind. If he wants t d smething, nthing and nbdy can
stand ______.
— I agree.
A. n his way B. by the way C. in this way D. in his way
27. The idim (成语) "Mengzi's mther makes three mves." tells f a mther wh did all
she culd t prvide the best ______ fr her child.
A. infrmatin B. instructin C. envirnment D. treatment
28. It is _____ f the peple t _____ mney t the pr children with intellectual disabilities.
A imprtant, give B. generus, prvide C. meaningful, fferD. helpful, dnate
29. The pster says the Basketball Cmputer Game ______.
A. is designed by Tny
B. is nly suitable fr yung players
C. des nt wrk n the seller's cmputer
D. is almst new and in gd cnditin
30. — Hi, Mary. We will visit Tang Dynasty Park this weekend. Wuld yu like t jin us?
— ______. That's the last thing in the wrld I ever want t d.
A. It depends B. I can't agree mreC. It's up t yu D. N, thanks
三、完形填空(共15小题，每小题1分，满分15分)
A few years ag I wrked in a prject fr hmeless peple. There had been ne yung man in his early twenties that we all _31_ abut. He had n ne in his life. His father was in _32_ fr murder. His mther had died.
When he was six years ld, he was placed in fster care(寄养). He _33_ the rest f his childhd in and ut f children's hmes. He had _34_ ging fr him in life. He started t be lst in cmputer games, gt kicked ut f the hstel he was living in and ended up _35_.
I'd been asked t see him because the nurses had becme wrried abut his _36_. He culdn't see the pint f keeping ging. Smene with his histry, in his situatin is at a very high _37_ f killing himself.
We started talking and I asked him _38_ abut if he had been thinking abut killing himself. “I think abut it every day,” he said. I asked him if he had made plans. He _39_ his head. “I culdn't d it t Becky,” he said. I was at a lss. Wh was Becky? I'd thught he was cmpletely _40_ — n family at all.
“She talks t me every day,” he explained. “She'd be heartbrken. She's the nly reasn I keep ging.”
Becky was nt a family member r a friend. She was _41_ a persn wh n her way hme frm wrk every day, stpped, and spke t him.
She nly stpped fr 10 minutes r s while she waited fr her train, but wuld ften _42_ him a cffee r sandwich and wuld sit with him in the waiting hall.
“It's funny,” he said. “She's gt a gd jb, but she always sits n the flr next t me.”
She never _43_ t stp. It was a tiny gesture. Fr her, it was an insignificant(微不足道的) event in her day. Yet fr him, it meant smething s much mre.
I suspect even nw she has n idea the imprtance f what she had dne. She had given him a tiny glimmer(一丝) f _44_ that he had held n t with all his pwer. With just a tiny gesture, she had given a yung man a _45_ t keep n living.
While it might nt make headlines, smetimes it's the small, simple acts f kindness that can make all the difference.
31. A dreamt B. heard C. wrried D. cmplained
32. A. silence B. hspital C. actin D. prisn
33. A. described B. spent C. remembered D. finished
34. A. nthing B. smething C. everything D. anything
35. A. cheerless B. hmeless C. wrthless D. harmless
36. A. weight B. wealth C. plan D. md
37. A. quality B. fear C. risk D. price
38. A. directly B. excitedly C. impatiently D. carelessly
39. A. turned B. shk C. cvered D. raised
40. A. awful B. aware C. awake D. alne
41. A. just B. already C. even D. always
42. A. shw B. sell C. buy D. prepare
43. A. prmised B. decided C. expected D. failed
44. A. time B. hpe C. place D. smile
45. A. reasn B. chice C. chance D. decisin
四、阅读理解(共15小题，每小题2分，满分30分)
A
Tw little bys
46. What happened t Jack's ty hrse?
A. Its head was brken ff. B. It was taken by sldiers.
C. It was brken by Je. D. It was lst in the war.
47. The best wrd fr the blank is ______.
A. fast B. hard C. slw D. quick
48. What is the sng mainly abut?
A. Dangerus war. B. Interesting games.
C. Pleasant summer. D. Valuable friendship.
B
Living in a freign culture can be exciting, but it can als be cnfusing(令人迷惑的). A grup f Americans wh taught English in ther cuntries recently discussed their experiences. They decided that miscmmunicatins were always pssible.
On her first day in Micrnesia, an island in the Pacific, Lisa thught peple weren't paying any attentin t her. The day was ht. She went int a stre and asked fr cld drinks. The lcal wman didn't say anything. Lisa repeated the questin. Still the wman said nthing. She later learned that the wman had answered her: She had raised her eyebrws, which in Micrnesia means “yes”.
Jan remembered an experience she had in Bulgaria, a cuntry in Eurpe. She went t a restaurant that was knwn fr its cabbage. She asked the waiter, “D yu have cabbage tday?” the waiter ndded his head. Jan waited, but the cabbage never came. In that cuntry, a nd means n.
Tm had a similar prblem when he arrived in India. After explaining smething in class, he asked his students if they understd. They answered with many different nds and shakes f the head. He thught sme peple had nt understd, s he explained again. When he asked again, they did the same thing. He sn fund ut that his students did understand. In India, peple nd and shake their heads in different ways depending n where they cme frm. Yu have t knw where a persn is frm t understand whether they mean “yes” r “n”.
49. These Americans teaching English in ther cuntries fund that they ______.
A. shuld g abrad fr vacatins B. needed t learn freign languages
C. shuld ften discuss their experiences D. had prblems with cmmunicatins
50. Peple in Micrnesia shw “yes” by ______.
A. ndding heads B. raising eyebrws
C. shaking heads D. saying “n”
51. Tm misunderstd his class at first because ______.
A. he did nt knw much abut Indian culture
B. he didn't explain everything clearly enugh
C. sme students didn't understand his questins
D. he didn't knw where the students came frm
52. The passage is mainly abut ______.
A. bdy language in freign restaurants B. class discussin in Indian schls
C. miscmmunicatin in different cultures D. English teaching in ther cuntries
C
China has lng been knwn as a natin f rites(礼仪之邦). Chinese peple behave plitely n any frmal ccasin, whether it is a wedding ceremny, a celebratin party, r a banquet(宴席).
As they say, when in Rme, d as the Rmans d. The fllwing basic Chinese table manners will help yu generally master Chinese dinner manners.
One clear difference between Western and Eastern dining habits is prtin(一份) size. While meals in Western restaurants are sized fr individuals (个人), dishes ffered in Chinese restaurants are meant t be shared. As such, fd either cmes in bite-sized pieces, r is prepared in a way that makes it easy t prtin(分配) while being served t yu n large plates.
As meals are shared, ne may care abut the degree f sanitatin(公共卫生) . It's cmmn t find cmmunal chpsticks(公筷) placed with each dish. It is gd manners t use the cmmunal utensils in a public setting.
Yu may als ntice that tables, especially thse in larger dining rms, are rund and have a lazy Susan (mre cmmnly knwn as "that rtating (旋转的) table n tp f yur table"). Besides efficiency(效率) purpses, circular tables stand fr imprtant meaning in Chinese culture. It means unity(团结) and presents dining as an event where family members get tgether. Befre yu spin the turntable t get t that delicius piece f duck, make sure that n ne else is reaching fr fd! It's implite t spin the table just as smene is trying t pick up sme fd.
As mentined abve, Chinese restaurants ften use rund tables. In Western cultures, the hst r the eldest family member ften sits at the head f a lng table. But what happens when the table is rund?
As a rund table, the seat f hnr(首位) is the ne facing the dr. The clser yu are sitting next t that seat, the mre imprtant yu are. In a setting where there is n drway—utdr dining, fr example -- the seat f hnr wuld be the ne facing east. In a banquet envirnment, the table f hnr is usually the ne sitting farthest away frm the dr.
The time at which the dining begins depends n the presence f party members. The suitable time t dig in is after the guest f hnr, r the eldest member f the grup, is seated and has begun their meal. Smetimes they will mean the start f a meal, by saying “吃吧” which means “Please eat”.
53. What shuld we d if we have meals in a public setting?
A. Bring yur wn chpsticks frm hme.
B. Use cmmunal chpsticks t get fd.
C. Use yur wn chpsticks t share fd.
D. Share the fd with thers' chpsticks.
54. What des the underlined wrd “spin” in the passage mean?
A. turn smething arund B. pull smething nearer
C. pick smething up D. mve smething away
55. What is the mainly idea f Paragraph 5?
A. Why the table is rund? B. Hw can yu find a seat?
C. Which is the hnr seat? D. Wh is the mst imprtant?
56. Hw des the writer rganize the article?
A. In time rder. B. Frm specific(细节) t general(整体).
C. In space rder. D. Frm general t specific.
D
It was last January, when I'd just finished a charity and was n the train back hme, that I put dwn my phne and started writing thank-yu ntes t peple wh had helped.
When I gt ff the train, I felt amazingly gd. The next day, I wrte mre thank-yus and the same feeling f happiness hit me again. I suddenly had the idea: Why nt keep n ding this fr every day f the year?
T keep n task, I decided t pick ut a different theme fr each mnth. January was charity. February wuld be neighbrs, I decided. And I thught f a number f names right away: the wner f ur lcal bkstre, wh let me and my little sn in befre the stre pened and ffered t play his favrite sngs; ur babysitter, wh drpped ff a bag f ld bard games fr ur kids t play…
While writing the ntes, I realized hw ften I had spent my time n the phne mving frm app t app appreciating(欣赏) ther peple's lives. Writing thank-yu ntes allwed me the time t d smething different, paying mre attentin t my wn life.
In the fllwing mnths, I wrte t my friends, dctrs, teachers and parenting rle mdels. In July, my “fd” mnth, I wrte t Julie, wh used t ck at my favrite restaurant. It went like this:
Dear Julie,
I've been finding myself missing yu lately. Thank yu fr hsting and cking beautiful and thughtful fd. Jake and I will never frget when yu sent ut biscuits shaped int the number VI fr ur sixth anniversary(周年纪念日). We talk abut it every year.
Thank yu. We miss yu.
Lve,
Gina
I was happy t receive a nte back frm her. Julie replied, “I dn't think I've ever received such a tuching letter befre, I'm ging thrugh a hard time right nw, and this helps.”
On December 31, I wrte my last card — t Jake, my husband, and ur tw kids. And I tk a picture f us, s I culd remember the feeling welling up inside me. Gratitude.
57. The underlined wrd “this” in Paragraph 2 means ______.
A. writing thank-yu ntes B. putting the phne away
C. taking the train back hme D. raising mney fr charity
58. Hw did Julie mst prbably feel after reading the nte frm Gina?
A. Shy and surprised. B. Pleased and relaxed.
C. Nervus and excited. D. Mved and encuraged.
59. What did Gina get by ding her task accrding t the passage?
A. Many thanks frm her neighbrs. B. Mre time t appreciate her wn life.
C. Mre help frm peple arund her. D. Happy mments t be with her friends.
60. The best title fr the passage can be ______.
A. My Thank Yu Year B. An Amazing Trip
C. Happiness inside Us D. Imprtant Peple in Our Life
五、根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入横线上的最佳选项。选项中有一项为多余选项。(本题共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分)
The “green car” has becme ppular in recent years. It means that a car is envirnmentally friendly.
Tday, mst cars are pwered by petrl(汽油). They make ur lives easier. Hwever, there cme tw f the biggest prblems -- nise pllutin and air pllutin.
_61_, we have t think f ways t make cars that are better fr the envirnment. One day, maybe yu can help invent a clean car that makes peple, animals, and plants happy! _62_. We are still learning t make these cars better.
Electric cars: An electric car uses a battery fr its pwer. When yu are nt driving it, just plug it in like a mbile phne t give the battery mre pwer. _63_.
Fuel cell(燃料电池) cars: Car makers are nw learning abut hw fuel cells can be used t pwer cars. Fuel cells use hydrgen(氢气) and xygen(氧气) t make pwer. _64_.
Slar cars: A slar car has large panels(嵌板) n its tp that get pwer frm the sunlight. The car hlds that pwer in a battery. _65_ But n ne uses them, because slar panels can't get enugh pwer frm the sun t make a car g fr a lng time. Als, they are very slw.
第Ⅱ卷 (非选择题部分 共60分)
六、阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。(共10小题，每小题1分, 满分 10分)
Chinese actress and directr Jia Ling made headlines after she _66_(success) changed her frmer self int a fit, radiant yung wman. Her latest mvie, Yu Only Live Once, was a big hit ver the Spring Festival. It has reached past 3.5 billin yuan ($492.7 millin) within three days at _67_ beginning f the hliday.
It tells the stry f an verweight and depressed wman in her _68_(thirty) wh dubts abut herself and her future. Everything changes _69_ she takes up bxing and receives mnths f intensive training. The mre she trains, _70_(cnfident) she becmes. Gradually, she turns herself int the persn she wants t be and learns t lve herself. The film explres the themes f self-discvery and _71_(persn) grwth.
In rder t make mvies, Jia Ling nce gained weight and then lst weight t shw a cmpletely different image _72_ the past. _73_(lse) weight requires a lt f effrt and time is a test fr many peple. Her success is nt nly due t her talent, but als because f her curage. After the audience watched the film, almst everyne _74_(mve) by what she had dne.
We shuld nt let thers define(定义) wh we really are. Instead, we need t stay true t _75_(we).
七、根据短文内容及首字母提示，填写所缺单词。(共10小题，每小题1分，满分10分)
Yuan Lngping, a Chinese scientist, has saved peple withut any magic. His success n hybrid rice(杂交水稻) fed millins f peple in hunger.
Yuan was brn n September 7,1930. After graduating frm the the Suthwest Agriculture Institute(农业学院), he w_76_ as a teacher at an agriculture schl in Hunan.
Abut 50 years ag, sme natural disasters hit China. Yuan saw many peple lse their l_77_ because f hunger every day. S_78_ then, he has dne research n hw t grw gd quality rice. In 1964, he fund a natural hybrid rice plant by a_79_ . It had great advantages ver thers. Yuan was excited abut w_80_ he discvered. He then decided t study this particular plant.
In 1973, he started t g_81_ a type f hybrid rice. It prduced 20% mre rice each unit than cmmn nes. The next year he had a great s_82_. This prgress made China the wrld's leader in rice prductin.
In China, mst rice fields grw Yuan's hybrid rice. He is c_83_ the “Father f Hybrid Rice”.
Yuan died in a hspital in Changsha at the age f 91. He said he had tw dreams: the first dream is that peple can enjy the cl frm the shade f the strng and tall rice. The s_84_ is that the whle wrld can plant the rice he develped and all the peple in the wrld are nt hungry. Let's r_85_ the great man.
八、阅读与回答问题(共5小题，每小题2分，满分10分)
Can yu imagine a wrld withut chclate? Accrding t chclate makers it culd happen if we dn't act sn.
There are tw main causes f the chclate shrtage(短缺)—chclate's grwing ppularity and less prductin f cca, the plant frm which chclate is made. With mre and mre peple in India and China lving chclate these years, nt much can be dne abut the first cause.
Therefre, the nly thing we can d is t increase cca prductin. Hwever, new plant diseases and little rain have reduced cca prductin by 40 percent in the past 10 years. What's wrse, many cca farmers in Africa and ther cca-prducing cuntries are changing t ther crps such as crn r rubber. This way, the farmers can make mre mney.
“T prevent mre farmers frm changing, we are trying t create new cca plants that can grw faster and strnger.” said the researchers at the Internatinal Cca Cntrl Centre. But first they must make sure the new plants are safe t grw. This takes a lng time.
First, each new plant is stred at the Cntrl Centre fr six mnths t make sure it is healthy. It is then planted in the Centre's fields, studied and tested fr anther tw years. Only after scientists are certain that they're disease-free, will the plants be sent t farmers in West Africa r wherever else they are needed.
T create new strnger types f cca, scientists at the Centre are cmbining the best parts frm different cca plants. Thugh the wrld is facing a serius chclate shrtage, there is nw hpe!
86. In which cuntries has chclate becme mre ppular in recent years?
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87. Why d many cca farmers chse t grw crn r rubber?
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88. What's the advantage f the new cca plants accrding t the researchers?
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89. Hw lng des it take scientists t make sure a cca plant is safe t grw?
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90. What d yu think f the scientists' research n the new types f cca plants?
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九、句子翻译(共5小题，每题2分，满分10分)
91. 志愿者们将会为运动员提供支持并使本届运动会获得巨大成功。(prvide …fr; help d)
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正如谚语所说: “一分耕耘, 一份收获。”(as······g)
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那里的人们在公共场合表现的很有礼貌吗? (behave)
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更多的钱被需要以便来开展我们的工作。(be needed t……)
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这些新型能源成本低廉, 且用之不尽。(run ut)
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十、书面表达(共20分)
Teens 杂志社正在进行一项针对中学生生活的调查，假如你是李明，请根据以下问题的提示，用英语写一篇短文，给杂志社投稿，分享你的生活。
1. D yu have gd manners in yur daily life? Hw d yu behave well in public?
2. D yu help peple wh need help? Hw can yu help them in yur daily life?
3. D yu d any charity wrk in yur spare time? What's yur favrite and why?
4. D yu live a green life? Hw d yu g green?
注意：
短文需包含两到三个方面，可以适当发挥。
2. 词数90左右。
3. 开头和结尾已给出，不计入总字数。
I'm Li Ming, a Grade 8 student at Sunshine Middle Schl. I'm glad t tell yu smething
abut my life.
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In a wrd, I'm trying t make my life clurful and meaningful.
参考答案
二、单选
21-25 ACBDB 26-30 DCDDD
三、完形
31-35 CDBAB 36-40 DCABD 41-45 ACDBA
四、阅读理解
46-48 AAD 49-52 DBAC 53-56 BAAD 57-60 ADBA
五、 六选五
61-65 BFDEA
六、语法填空
66. successfully 67. the 68. thirties 69. after 70. the mre cnfident
71. persnal 72. frm 73. Lsing 74. was mved 75. urselves
七、 首字母填空
76. wrked 77. lives 78. Since 79. accident 80. what81. grw 82. success 83. called 84. secnd 85. remember
八、阅读与回答问题
86. (In) India and China.
87. T make mre mney./ Because they want t make mre mney.
88. They can grw faster and strnger.
89. Tw years and a half.
90. I think it brings new hpes./ It's useful./……
九、翻译句子
91. Vlunteers will prvide supprt fr the athletes and help make the sprts meeting a great success.
92. Just as the saying ges, “N pain, n gain.”
93. D peple there behave plitely in public?
94. Mre mney is needed t carry n with ur wrk.
95. These new types f energy cst very little and will never run ut.
十、作文(略)
Tw little bys had tw little tys
Each had a wden hrse.
Jyfully they played each summer's day
Sldiers(士兵) bth, f curse.
Then Jack brke ff his hrse's head.
Sad fr his ty, then cried with jy
As his yung friend Je said:
Did yu think I wuld leave yu crying
When there's rm n my hrse fr tw?
Climb up here, Jack, and dn't be crying
I can g just as fast with tw
When we grw up we'll bth be sldiers
And ur hrses will nt be tys
And I wnder if we'll remember
When we were tw little bys.
Lng years past, war came s _▲_
Bravely they marched away.
Guns rared lud and in the mad crwd
Wunded and dying lie
Up ges a shut, a hrse rushes ut
Out frm the crwd, t where Je lay
Then came a vice he knew:
Did yu think I wuld leave yu dying
When there's rm n my hrse fr tw?
Climb up here, Je, we'll sn be flying
I can g just as fast with tw.
Nw we are bth real sldiers
And ur hrses are nt tys
And I remember
When we were tw little bys.
A. Slar cars might be the cleanest f all.
B. With the wrld's ppulatin grwing quickly
C. Using NE cars has many advantages. That makes n pllutin r nise. Meanwhile , it als saves energy.
D. Sme electric cars are much cleaner than petrl cars.
E. The nly waste gas they prduce is clean water.
F. There are a few new types f cars that d nt use petrl.